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THE KKK PUT TO FLIGHT
No doubt, most right-thinking’ persons night the Indians armed themselves ahd
throughout the length and breadth of determined to break it up. When the
the nation, who have long since deplor¬ Klansmen readied for the ceremony the
ed masked mob depradations, took Red armed with pistols and
heart last week when a group of Lum- men, guns,
bee Indians in North Carolina routed a other weapons, attacked the invaders
hand of Ku Klux Klansmen who were and sent them away in panic. Many of
attempting to hold a cross burning cer¬ them left behind their guns and aban¬
emony in order to intimidate them. doned their cars. A number of them
In Robeson county there are 40,000 suffered gun shot wounds and a few of
whites, 30,000 Indians and 25,000 Negroes. them were arrested and charged with in¬
The Klansmen resented the friendship citing riot. After this ignominious rout
between the whites and the Indians and of the hooded i'k whose dastardly at¬
for some time they had been showing tacks are .usually directed against the
their hostility toward the Indians. Twice weak and the defenseless, our guess is
the wearers of the hoods burned crosses that they will think long and seriously
near the Indian area. The Indians were before they attempt another cross-burn¬
aroused of this show' of hostility, so when ing ceremony in the area of the Lumbees
the K'ansmen scheduled a third cross v-ho ■"' p the offsprings of the courageous
burning observance for last Saturday Cherokees. ■ ! f
A TWO-WAY STREET
Under the above caution The Black a serious effort to look after the
Dispatch ot Oklahoma ( \ty, Okla., recent¬ greatest potential of all which is the
ly carried a very interesting editorial Negro here at home.
on what the Negro must do to improve We hear the remark everywhere
his upward strides. Here it is: that the Negro has improved econom¬
Race prejudice is without reason ically, educationally and spiritually
but sometimes we wonder just what within the past decade. This is true;
in the name of grace ke°ps it going. hut white America as w'ell as the rest
Business firms an.l industry use of the world w'asn’t at a stand-still
such flimsy excuses for their prac¬ while the colored brother was mov¬
tice of racial discrimination, yet hire ing on, and white America is just
the best of brains to secure the max¬ as far ahead today as it was in 1937.
imum of efficiency in all other opera¬ Ginsberg rjraws some three basic
tions. conclusions iri his hook which are
The television, radio and movi" in¬ worthv of our sincere thought and
dustry say thev refuse to use Ne¬ consideration. Ho says, "That while
groes in other than stereotyre spots, expanding economic opportunities
as a general rule because they say are essential, new opportunities by
th n rustic will not accept th-’m. tbemrelves will have little value un¬
Neverthe'ess these industries hire less Negroes pre adecmately prepared
foreign ta’ent and import it into o r to take advantage of them.’’ An¬
conntrv to work in competition with other is that preparation -for work
native-born persons of eon»l and in is a cumulative process that begins
some instants superior ability. One in earliest childhood aWf involves
of the hie three auto manufacturers the total lifn of the individual, not
i« prosentlv sponsoring a foreign or¬ only his formal education and train¬
chestra leader who knows less about ing. The final conclusion is that
the English language than a hog much of the responsibility for im¬
do°s birth cotUrol. However. ”e proving the Negro’s preparation for
assume this fo'^igner is acceptable work fa'G on the Negro community
to thm'r vast number of pestomers itself. It is. therefore, important
as W'ell as the thousands of Negroes for Negro leaders to continue to
who purchase their rrs each veer. strive against discriminatory em¬
For a number o r vears the. NAAOP ployment practices. But, in addition
artU other o>urani''ations conee r ned to striving to r°move the remaining
r-ith fair employment mmctiers h”vr harriers, thev must allocate time and
tried various aperoaches to this effort to make Negro youth aware
problem. Them» are some few isolat¬ of the new opportunities so that thev
ed instances of results, however the will prepare themselves adequately
jrh is far from finished o»* satls- to taka advantage of them.
factor 1 '. Some fpw national brand Thus we see the iob i“ not ah to be
firms have mad-* token gestures to¬ done across the tracks. Negro Amer¬
ward the vast Negro market through icans have a responsibility and duty
racially slanted advertisements in as well as their white brothers.
Negro journals. while others hire Very few liberal leaders that we
some few' Negroes in public relations. know of. white or Ne«TO, are trying
However, no national firms to our to change the prejudices of people.
kpom]edge advertise to the general However, quite a few are trying to
public with Negro models, person¬ bring the general public’s reason up
nel or artistic talent. to the norm of basic and logical un¬
Eli Gin/herg, director of the Conser¬ derstanding. This newspaper feels
vation of Human Resources Protect very keenly that every person under
at Columbia university, savs in his the stars and stripes, foreign born
book. "The [Negro Potential,’' that or native, should have equal oppor¬
the Negro market in the United tunity to use his God-given talents
States is greater than snv single without discrimination. Bv the
foreign nation we trade with. Our same token, we think qualification
diplomatic corns would think them¬ and fitness to serve should be the
selves justified, if need he, to send primary yardstick used in employ¬
our fleet and soldiers am- place on ment practices. Therefore, to be
the gloLp to defend one foreign trade consistent, we must continue to urge
and relations, nevertheless no de¬ our Negro youth to adequately pre¬
partment in our government makes pare themselves for w'hat is to come.
Billy Graham To Take
Evangelist Crusade To
Little Rock
LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (ANPi—
Billy Graham, famed evangel¬
ist, will hold a three--'eek soul¬
saving crusade here beginning
August 18, 1959 it was announc-!
ed toy the Little Rock Chamber
of Commerce last week.
The crusade, said the Com¬
merce group, is the result of
an invitation extended Graham j
seven years ago by a group of
Little Rock area ministers.
The 1959 crusade will be held
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in the spacious War Memorial
Stadium and is expected to at¬
tract record audiences.
At the height of the ,
Rock integration crisis, Graham
sought to visit the embattled
city but was advised to
until the situation
down.
4-H’r Tells Of Her
Visit To Brazil
old mss^Dons 4-H’er of Mount Holley,
now visiting in Brazil as an
ternational Farm Youth
change delegate, has
on her stay with one farm
ily a half hour’s drive
Rio de Janerio.
The 4-H’er says the
family of five she is
visiting > loiung operates v/pv i a i a cattle
^ farm _ They have
head of Brahma cattle and
000 Leghorn chickens.
sell , around 13,500 eggs a
In addition .they market
chicks weekly from their
000 capacity incubator,
Miss Smith .a graduate
Virginia State College, says
spends much of her time
ing the host mother with
making chores.
| Before her return to*
TTnited States in Apri! . she
have ’'j spent 7*'“““ a “ week or two
SPVeral farm famllleS ' ShG
| for Brazil in October
j with 14 other delegates
for Latin America.
The privately financed
j j program international is designed to help
prove
[ Since its inauguration
, I 10 10 years ago, about 900 U.
j farm youths have visited in
[ countries, and more than
young people from these
tries have visited in the
ed States.
THE SAVANNAH TRIBUNE
Between The Lines
By Gordon Hancock
<F' r Associated Negro Press)
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vtoney or Morals
Our great country is
distressed and embarrassed,
Russia takes the lead in
missle and space-race.
I long have/ye been
’ and too long have we
content to substitute money
morals. We have
i our drive . . , for , brotherhood ,. , . and ,
concentrated on studied
tempts to eternalize
gnd discrimination.
ihis country is one of the
world leariers in
ind this has prejudiced
darker peop.es of the eart.i
agamst our vaunted democracy.
Today instead of boasting of
world leadership in the matter
of human brotherhood, we are
startled and humiliated before
the up and coming communists,
who seem determined to ulti-
mately take over the world and
rule it according to the com-
munist formula.
It is somewhat disconcerting
to see our once nroud and
mighty nation fighting for its
life. And the outcome of this
fight concerns every American
regardless of race or national!-
ty or creed. We would be poor-
ly advised if we minimized the
thread that is upon us, and it
is geine to take the best that
mir nearlv 200 000 000 can giv n
if our way of life is to be sav-
ed.
Wc are worried and alarmed,
as we well should be and our
statesmen mint prove
thev are r°al statesmen in such
n tim? as this. But if as much
time is spent in the future—
as in the past—ho'ding the Ne¬
gro down and throwing him
for losses ,as in the current
attempt to s f amo out the
NAACP root and branch in the
South .the future of our great
nation leads up-hill and into
‘he dark.
This matter of rushing the
Negro to the front in times
cf war and to the rear in times
of peace is amoral matter that
I must be faced if the grave sit-
j nation that confronts us is to
be saved. Nations like
pals must eventually account
I’-efore the bar of God for their
nns. The rise and fall of na¬
tions is in itself a mute testi-
menial „ to the ,, unerring . work-
ing of righteousness and evil in
the world.
The great pity of history
that there has not yet appear¬
ed on the horizon a nation that
could stand prosperity. There
us law.ys .some resetting sin
| that ends ultimately in destruc¬
tion. Race prejudice is the
setting sin of America and
not cured will ultimately
stroy us.
Today in the hour of
gravest peril since the
ing of the nation nearly
years ago, we are divided
race prejudice divides us.
the Russians would find
opening wedge for
A STRONG AND DETERMINED LEADER-HIP CAN BREAK THEIR GRIP
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they will find it in the cleavage
that race prejudice is making
in our country. Divided we fall
and nothing divides us more
mrelv than race prejudice and
its concommitants. But race
prejudice is a matter of morals
not money. |
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Our great , _ President ., , Eison-. „
, bower is calling for a conserva-
tion of our talents only and how our j
genius. God knows
i mwh genius has been sacrific-
ed to goddess of sezmea-!
, jon of tbe millions 0 f Ne-
groes disqualified for their ser-
v) „ es t 0 mankind because of the
rvyation ct race prejudice,
th°re we r e perhaps those who
m ight have made it possible
frtr the vanguard to rise .
The fact [that with limited
opportunities Negroes have
made such substantial contribu-
j Fon to the country’s welfare
j shows and suggests what
1,1 have teen had thev not
Ven fettered by ^ udice ’
Tb " re is one thini? of vvhich we
may be sure and that is ’ a na '
tion that f,mctlons ninety P er
08nt can never f 0,rnete wi ^ a
nation that functlons a hundred
P rr cent; -
j with every Russian giving
his best and with only the
whites of our nation giving
their best, ve can never over-
| take Russia in the missle and
space-race. The genius that is
needed to get our natmn back
on equal terms in this race!
that must be run at, full I
strength m«v be wrapped up
n a dark skin. ■
We armreciate and apnlaud
ttie scientific genius of George!
Washington Carver, (but we
o'ten forget that there were- j
and are-other Carvers imt wait- |
ipg for a chance that race ’
i prejudice would deny them.
And so — our predisposition ------„------- to. —
spend and spend our billions is
not the answer by itself. Un-
less there is a moral reforma-
Don to match our great ex-
penditures for national defense
we are coming to grief,
1 The morals involved in seg¬
regation are just as important
: to national defense as money.
Race prejudice is the mill-store
about the nepk Qf our t
nati not povertv
NEW LITTLE ROCK
GROUP TO FIGHT
FOR EQUALITY
(Continued from Page One)
[ £cme along organization to seek equal would job come
! oppor-
trinities for them?”
j Rcv - Gibson made it clear
1 that the league has no quarrel
with the NAACP. but said his
organization believes there are
other methods of gaining the
I desired ends.
OHiO B. of E. REFUSES
TO CREATE JIMCROW
SCHOOL DISTRICT
TOLEDO, Ohio— (ANP >—After
hearng Toledo NAACP charges
that racial segregation was at
Q^ ^ be request the'*
io 0 f Education last
wegk rev ersed a decision to
trans f er a portion of a school
djstrict in Lucas county, near
Toledo to a district in
^ adjoining county.
xhe rejectlon too i { p i ace at a
meeting of the boa rd in Co¬
lumbus. , , ,
Earlier, Robert W. _ Penn, __ NA
ACP attorney, and Herman
Johnson, chairman of the
chapter’s education committee,
had argued against the pro-
posed transfer at a meeting of
the sta , te education officials
and the transfer and annexa-
tion committee of the board.
They contended that only 25
per cer.t cf pupils would be
transferred in an area compris¬
ing 48 percent of the wealth
of the district. This would
leave intact 77 percent of the
pupils in a district with only
52 percent of the wealth.
Actually, Pehn asserted, those
petitioning for the transfer
were parents 7 of whites and
Catholics,"'with- the exception
of three o¥' , iknir Negroes. Those
who wetiicf' bc left in the pres¬
ent dietribUMre predominantly
Negroes arid Protestants.
Thus, he;sa?M, Wi^e'than the move was
nothing a subter ]
free to segregation—a
fact that is just as repugnant
In Ohio as it is in Little Rock,
Ark.
In the same district, which
does not have a high school,
au horities met difficulty in
trying to find high schools to
accept 56 e’ghth grade gradu-
ates - the majority of them Ne¬
'~ roes
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THREE MEDlCS, TWO
»i|- N' 'Kof D crc G r*Lh CATC
CHARGE OF
D-HTROIT (ANP) Three
Prominent doctors and two
curses employed by the Physi-
Recorder’s £ ians , are n Judae _ DW °n_ John trml P Jiefore O’-1 |
DC, HENDERSON FREED
DETROIT, Mich.—Dr. Adison
B. Henderson, one of the
three doctors charged with
committing abortions by giv¬
ing nreznancy tests, was freed
of abortion charges last Thurs
day.
Kara on the charges of con¬
spiracy to commit abortions.
Tlwy are Dr. Edgar Keemer,
)9. Dr. Gilbert Edwards. 50. Dr.
Allison B. Henderson ,44, Mrs.
Lalleretta Swanson, 35 and
Mrs. Labrentha Hurley, 34.
A jury of ten women and
.four men will decide the fate
of the defendants.
The three doctors and two
nurses were arrested August 27,
1956, during a raid on a clinic
at Fourteenth and West Phila-
delphia, which is operated by j
Dr. Keemer.
Sixteen persons, most of
them women were taken to po¬
lice headquarters and question-
SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1958
By TED YATES
Initial reaction from informed persona in Washing¬
ton indicated that the launching by Russia ot her second
satellite made no basic change in deiense plans by the
United States. and , tax reduction, , ,.
therefore,'continued Advocates of government acceptance economy of their
to urge program
Thev were convinced that the nation’s defense needs could
be met and, in addition, there would be an adequate sur-
PlUS Secretary McElroy explained that Sputnik
Defense Russia had announced it in ad¬
II was no surprise, since super-speed-up
vance and that there would be no in. this
nation’s satellite-missile program. “We are already under
a t.ressure program,’’ he added.
Sputnik II, however, provided some members of Con¬
gress with an opportunity to urge bigger and bigger
spending— regardless of the need or the ability to use ad¬
ditional funds in a worthwhile manner.
Admittedly, Sputnik II gave a psychological advantagq
to the big-spending advocates. However, informed offi¬
cials said no need had yet been demonstrated for any spec¬
tacular increase in the spending pr ogram
According to homicide detec-
the women questioned
they paid the doctors prices
from $192 to $300 each
their abortions.
The women said they were
to the home of Mrs.
.where they conva¬
for two days .paying Mrs.
$15 per day for room
board.
Homicide detectives said the
were performed by
Keemer and Edwards; that
women were given tests j
pregnancy by Dr. Render- 1
who charged $8 for the
The trial is expected to con¬
for several weeks.
W?A WORKSHOP
BYNUM
WASHLNGTON D. C, „ Jan. . 16
•Polio will continue to strike
those persons who have failed
to ger their polio shots,” Chas.
Bynum, director of interraci-
ai activities for the National
Foundation for Infantile Para¬
lysis, stated in remarks to the
Mid-Winter Workshop of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association. Mr. Bynum said:
‘ pre-school children, teenagers
and young adults have been
slowest in securing the protec¬
tion afforded by the Salk polio
vaccine.”
Bynum pointed out that “the
American public, through March
of Dimes contributions to the
N.F.I.P., developed a safe and
effective vaccine. But the
American public has not taken
full advantage of the protec¬
tion made possible by support
of the polio fund drive.”
“Until the tens of thousands
of polio victims who can bene¬
fit from modern methods of
rehabilitation have been re-
stored to maximum
ievels, the fight against polio
must continue. There is no
victory until those crippled by
polio have received the full
oenefits of new methods of
rehabilitation developed with
March of Dimes support,” By¬
num concluded.
ALLEN UNIV. TO SUE
FOR ADMISSION TO
(Continued on page three)
for admission to u. of S, C.
They said McCall told them:
”1 cannot give you these blanks
and under the laws that govern
me, I cannot examine you.
Therefore, I cannot give you
applications.”
TO ATTEND POST
on<n UUuRoL
Dr. Philip W. Cooper will be
out of the city from January
25th to February 10th attend¬
ing a postgraduate course in
Oral Surgery at Northwestern
University Dental School in
Chicago. ... ...j
Following Jthe postgraduate
course, he will attend the three
day session of the Midw^pter
ennic of the Chicago; pental
Society, held annually at the
Comud-Hilton Hovel. This
clinic attracts more than 14,000
dentists from all over the world;
here the latest techniques and
methods are demonstrated.
SENATOR’S AIDE "U
RESENT INSULT OF
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Hill, and herself were interes¬
ted in, renting a house. .She
.pointed out that the very na-
ture Q{ our jQb{ . make jt not only
| deslrabie but neceS sar y for us
to have a good and convenient
home.”
Lustine was quite agreeable,
she said, and told her that he
had about 30 such locations.
He invited her to come in, and
discuss it and he would let her
have the keys so she could look
at the places.
When she went to the office,
accompanied by Miss Carru-
thers from Senator Henning’s
office, they met a barrage of in¬
sults from a woman whom
they presumed to be Mrs. Lus-
J ^ ne ’ sa * d they were pro-
i hibit ed from seeing a salesman
and were given no advice. She
quoted the woman as saying,
Ail the listings are on the
Doard. 1 don’t have the time to
do over ail of them with you,
and if you don’t like my: atti¬
tude, there’s the front door.”
Miss Dailey pointed out that
this company advertises pro-
P er ky each of the daily pa-
j i>ers ored.” under the marking “col-
In her protest to the Real
Estate Commission, the .Capitol
employee stated that she did
not feel that “people with this
kind of attitude should be al¬
lowed to advertise for Negro
trade—or any trade.”
FASHIONETTA
CONTESTANTS
(Continued from Page One)
apparel to the Savannah pub¬
lic; after which there will be
a gay evening of dancing.
Tickets are now on sale with
I any member of the sorority.